UN distributed food stuffs could/should be fortified with folic acid, vitamin A & perhaps other nutrients.

Hi - this is going out only to Board Members in the new "UNA-SF Board" subgroup of our larger UNA San Francisco InterMix list. 

President Pablo Castro recently brought up an interesting notion that UN distributed food stuffs could/should be fortified with folic acid, vitamin A and perhaps other important nutrients.  This report from WHO makes it clear that many countries have benefited from fortification, so it would seem a no-brainer.  Maybe it would just take a nudge to make it happen.  Seems worth checking out further. 

http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/guide_food_fortification_micronutrients.pdf